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Reflecting critically on the discipline of African American studies is a complicated undertaking, and making sense of the black American experience requires situating it within the larger cultural, political-economic, and ideological dynamics that shape American life. Renewing Black Intellectual History moves away from privileging racial commonality as the fulcrum of inquiry and moves toward observing the quality of the accounts scholars have rendered of black American life. This book maps the changing conditions of black political practice and experience from Emancipation to Obama with excursions into the Jim Crow era, Black Power radicalism, and the Reagan revolt. Here are essays, classic and new, that define historically and conceptually discrete problems affecting black Americans as these problems have been shaped by both politics and scholarly fashion. A key goal of the book is to come to terms with the changing terrain of American life in view of major Civil Rights court decisions and legislation.

Introduction

p. vii

Acknowledgments

p. xii

Emancipation, Reconstruction, and Retrenchment

Introduction

p. 1

Frederick Douglass's Life and Times: Progressive Rhetoric and the Problem of Constituency

p. 3

"Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others": The Political Economy of Racism in the United States

p. 19

The Jim Crow Era

Introduction

p. 51

How Black " Folk" Survived in the Modern South: Industrialization, Popular Culture, and the Transformation of Black Working-Class Leisure in the Jim Crow South

p. 53

An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Dug Bois, and the Prospect of Democracy Between the Wars

p. 80

The Educational Alliance and the Urban League in New York: Ethnic Elites and the Politics of Americanization and Racial Uplift, 1903-1932

p. 95

The Chicago School of Human Ecology and the Ideology of Black Civic Elites